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Poop check pls

I would not give veg if poops are soft and abnormal. Keep off veg and continue to feed hay until things stabilise
 
Do you have any ideas why her poos are like that? She's drinking and eating normally ( a lot) but her poos are tear shaped
 
It’s often a sign of a gut disturbance. The bacteria in the gut are out of sync. The antibiotics can cause it and it can take some time before things reestablish. The probiotics can help (poop soup would be better but given both your piggies are having issues, that isn’t an option available to you).

all I can really suggest in addition to the advice already given is to speak to your vet if things aren’t improving
 
Piggies&buns said:
It’s often a sign of a gut disturbance. The bacteria in the gut are out of sync. The antibiotics can cause it and it can take some time before things reestablish. The probiotics can help (poop soup would be better but given both your piggies are having issues, that isn’t an option available to you).

all I can really suggest in addition to the advice already given is to speak to your vet if things aren’t improving
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Thank you! Hopefully this is just something mild and everything will go back to normal for them as they're improving so much compared to the past weeks and days. Good thing is that ive managed to get poppy's weight around 600 grams again and snow's increased today as well
 
They appear to have improved but still have that tail at the end. But no veggies until they’re back to normal.
 
Update: we are back on normal looking poops. However it's alarming me that poppy has lost around 50g last time i weighed her (October 15) she was 607 grams then went down to 568 grams on October 17th and then another loss on that day the evening she was at about 553 g. I'm worried now but she has a good appetite she always eats hay and drinks a lot of fluids as well. She eats her pellets so much too! She popcorns and has zoomies for the past 2 days also :(IMG_20201018_095635.webp
 
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Update: we are back on normal looking poops. However it's alarming me that poppy has lost around 50g last time i weighed her (October 15) she was 607 grams then went down to 568 grams on October 17th and then another loss on that day the evening she was at about 553 g. I'm worried now but she has a good appetite she always eats hay and drinks a lot of fluids as well. She eats her pellets so much too! She popcorns and has zoomies for the past 2 days also :(View attachment 155863
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The poops do look better.

keep da check on her weight. At that amount of loss you go onto alert. This guide Weight - Monitoring and Management explains weight loss and what to do about it
 
UPDATE: weighed her again just now and she's on (550 grams) she loss about 3 grams. Should i feed her carrots to compensate for the weight loss? Or start syringe feeding again? Her poops are now normal and she's jollier and keeps on eating hay but her weight loss is unexplainable 😭

furmom.pau said:
Update: we are back on normal looking poops. However it's alarming me that poppy has lost around 50g last time i weighed her (October 15) she was 607 grams then went down to 568 grams on October 17th and then another loss on that day the evening she was at about 553 g. I'm worried now but she has a good appetite she always eats hay and drinks a lot of fluids as well. She eats her pellets so much too! She popcorns and has zoomies for the past 2 days also :(View attachment 155863
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Don’t give her carrots, it’s not the best way to get her weight up. You will have to step in with syringe feeding now. Start every 3 hours and adjust depending on her weight tomorrow. She’s not eating enough hay to maintain/put on so you’ll have to help her. Sorry.
 
I'm very anxious with her right now i hope she's alright. She loves getting her pea flake rewards and wheat grass so i really dont know what's going on
 
Siikibam said:
Don’t give her carrots, it’s not the best way to get her weight up. You will have to step in with syringe feeding now. Start every 3 hours and adjust depending on her weight tomorrow. She’s not eating enough hay to maintain/put on so you’ll have to help her. Sorry.
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Can i mix in a banana with her critical care?
 
We're just done with our first session and we've come by about 9 ml of feeding as she's very much willing to take them all
 
Piggies lose weight because they aren’t eating enough hay. Don’t give her carrots to compensate - if she is losing weight then she needs to be syringe fed fibre rich food and to eat more hay.
 
:agr: Try giving her more if she will take it. You will have to now feed her every two hours round the clock. The aim is to get her to take 60ml in a 24 hour period. I’d also perhaps have her seen by the vet again.
 
To be honest i feel like she's just being a picky eater. She loves this certain type of wheatgrass i introduced to them and ever since she's low on eating her timothy hay. But whenever i open the bag of wheatgrass they instantly go and eat them. Whenever i offer timothy they just refuse and eat the wheatgrass sigh 😭
 
Sorry that this thread got so long than i intended. We are back on these pointy looking poops (perhaps because of less intake of fiber from the past 1-2 days--which also explains the weight loss from that day) we've gotten her weight up again and she's eating a lot of wheatgrass as i figured i needed to put the grass they're eating there because they need to eat :soz: we cant take her to the vet until next week as it's my midterm week in uni and ive got no one to take her

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What is wheatgrass? Is it a grass based hay?
 
Siikibam said:
What is wheatgrass? Is it a grass based hay?
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I think so as it says they can have them daily. But ours is dried not fresh. I'm still waiting for our orchard hay to arrive so for now ill give them a mix of timothy and wheatgrass
 

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Wheatgrass is fine for them to eat, but Id wonder as it’s more of a treat not a replacement for hay. I'm not sure, I’ve never fed wheatgrass
 
I think it's more of a treat they're so addicted to it tho. I was combining it with their timothy and then gradually decreasing the wheat grass so they'll be forced to eat the timothy. We'll be switching to a mix of orchard (when it arrives) and timothy as they've become picky
 
Plain porridge oats are great for building up piggies weight that have been poorly
 
How much oats can i give them? And can i use this type of oats? Or should i blender it?
 

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you don’t need to blend them, just give them the oats as they are, not much though
 
Kind of wet and mushy soft poos (it stinks when i smell them)
 

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